Wicked barbed Spikes..

Nipple Spikes.

Sorry, I just had to say it.

Sheesh, hobby turned dangerous. If he grappled someone, they'd be screwed. He's already got blades shooting out of his fingers, his wrists, and his feet.

He'd be, like, a walking Iron Maiden.

He'd better get into BDSM to.. I can't imagine his girl liking his barbed wicked nipple spikes of doom!

IRON MAIDEN! *Plays Air Guitar*

...

OK, I must never do that again.

Single, plays the field, prefers women but will occationaly bat for the same team, and hangs out in the industrial/metal clubs. Already into a bit of S&M. Won't be a problem.

...and before you ask, yeah, this guy came from one too many cups of coffee, one to many manga, and generous helping of 'you know, i've played the same damn ice cold pro too many times. How can i spice this up?''



And yeah, i was tempted to make a reference to a Ghoul named Eddie for a contact but i decided it might be a little TOO out there.

He is so STOLEN to be a NPC now

My current character is based on the stock answers of hundreds of beauty pageant contestants: she likes going to gym, keeping fit, going out with friends, diving and skydiving...

She also likes art, especially traditional Japanese art. She was an art thief before she joined the team.

...EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!

*Hangs head in shame* I couldn't help myself...

...eeeeeyyuuuu! No way hombre'.

My apologies.

"Most" Runners then?

I wouldn't be surprised if my cybered elf-dude got too drunk one night and ended up IN a cyberporn.

boy, i hope not.

Just read about another Hobby that 'Runners could have, and WOULDN'T cost any extra points: Boosting Americars.

That's not a hobby, that's a survival skill. It's how you pay the bills on a slow month

Fine then, "Knowledge: Car Security Systems".

See, I do much the same thing with my group. I want "some" fluff. It doesn't have to be anything special... it can even use the same skills you use on you job, but let me know what he does on his downtime. Everyone has downtime. Hell, it might just be surfin' the net and collecting LOLCat memes. No skills needed if you already have Computer 1. It's background; it's character.

I think you misunderstand what the original poster was saying. He wasn't saying he picked a "hobby" for hte player, jsut that he wanted the players to round out their characters. It really helps the GM to build up his world if he knows who the characters are. Maybe you collect antique boxes. Some nice fluff and flavor if your regular vendor (a freebie contact you've earned over some time) has a job for you. Or is getting hassled by a local street gang. Etc. Hell, maybe you are doing a B&E on some rich dude and you see a very special box you know is worth 30K jsut sitting on the frikkin endtable. You could pocket it for your own collection or maybe swipe it and fence it. A hobby CAN be profitable.

One of my regular players was an adept that sculpted as part of his meditation. He had an art appreciation Knowledge skill of 2. He regularly suplemented his income by swiping pieces of art from B&Es. Nothing super special.. jsut stuff that might be worth 500Y, 1000Y, etc. It added something to the character that would have otherwise jsut been another sneaky elf adept with killing hands and "no cyber, please." It earned him quite a few "good roleplaying" awards as well.

Vlad

my favorite know skill of all time.... esoteric trivia

Got it in one!

And I get to be a total jerk and have the Johnson phone five minutes before the big Urban Brawl Grunge Match between the Ares Predators and the Saeder-Krupp Dragons.

One of my players, a rigger, had a low level mafioso contact(a distant cousin) that LOVED football and would always insist everytime the player called him for info or to make a deal:

"Heya, youz wanna come over and watch the Giants game? We'll order a pizza from Del Rosa's. Or, you know, I can come over there. The wife, she's onna one of her tears. Fraggin bitch. If it wasn't for Rocky, Jr, I woulda dumped her hoop years ago. And don't let me get started on duh little fruit. She's got him takin' ballet. Fraggin ballet!! Waddya gonna do? So, waddaya say? We'll have a good time. I'll bring some beers. Oh, you got work? You mean that things goin' down tonight? Well, frag... okay, how about Sunday? I hears duh Broncs and the Cowboys matchup's gonna kick some hoop! We could get together. I could get ahold of Little Tommy... "

The guy wouldn't relent until the player agreed. So, the player basically developed a hobby by proxy, so as not to tick his contact off.

Vlad

Vlad, man, I so wish I could get you into my game!

I'm stealing that, BTW!

... or Pop Culture.

... or Current Events.

... or Rumormill.

My current character, a British magician , is a soccer hooligan who also likes goblin rock and searching for real Guinness and scotch.

My previous character,a cyberninja, enjoyed 20th century action movies and ancient Japanese history.

Honestly, all of my Sr4 contacts have had drugs as their hobbies.

I've had a couple of characters have following business trends/keeping up on the markets, reading management books, etc as hobbies. One of them, (an SR3 conjuror) because he used to own a (fairly sleazy) magical security firm before he started running (he also had a taste for elven wine - being an elf himself it made sense - and was quite a womanizer).

The other character followed business because he had been raised/schooled in a corp and never managed to kick the ingrained habit (he's a stealth/throwing/social adept and also 'collects' various cons he's helped run/learned about and also has an interest in stage magic (that plaming skill in his stealth skill group has to be put to *some* use).

I had a Hacker that spend most of his free downtime (when nor making rating 10 programs) makes and playing VR games he would base some of the levels in the FPS he made on sim recordings and trids taken by the rest of the group. But changed them enough to make in untraceable. This lead to some fun comments when the where supressed by a few miniguns on a Citymaster and other Hitting the fan moments.

I had an Elven Face who's legal SIN profesion was listed as a Gambler. The very first game was based off of his skill and we had a few more runs that used his skills. He parlayed his successful runs, gambling and rediculous list of contacts into becoming a Fixer with the team running the various support avenues of the business. Was a fun run of it after awhile.

Well, my Elven Mystic Adept with the Dark Goddess Mentor Spirit (Shinto with rare Mentor Spirit Izanami) would probably be considered having Bash humanis Policlub members as a Hobby, but I'm thinking about stealing TeaTirme or "Teatime"'s hobby from 'The Hogfather'.

Humanis Bashing isn't so much a Hobby as a Shadowrunner's equivilent of a day in Virtual Disneyland.

You can even be humiliating about it, and sing "It's a small world after all" while you kick them in the groin.

Nice, I like how you think CanRay. I'll have to keep that in mind next game lol! Anyone understand what I mean by "TeaTime's" Hobby?

Figuring out how to kill Anthropomorphic Personifications of Things?

Members of Humanis can be Shadowrunners too!

Very true! And Governor of Seattle, as well.

They can't, however, be President of the United States. A dragon saw to that.

Don't bet on it. Just because they lost one election (and by the way, it was extremely close) does not mean they won't get another chance.

And that's why I'm proud to be a Canadian!

...

BUGGER!

Um... United Canadian American States.

That's why he added the 'BUGGER!' part.

Can't steal the freely given *L*

And I wish I were in your game!

*Utters once again the GM's lament* "But, I wanna play tooooo!"

Speaking of which, I am going to be moving to Wichita, KS from Indiana in a month or so. (Getting married to a wonderful woman, who has about only one flaw: She doesn't game. ) Are there any Dumpshockers here that have an open slot at their table there? I will be all lonesome without my longtime gaming buddies.

Vlad

My current Dwarf Doctorate is an anti-social (charisma 1) nerd. She is quite a lonely woman, and among an interest in home-made explosives, chemistry, has an Interest Knowledge skill of Pornography (Simsense). In fact, her knowledge skill list is as follows:

Chemistry: 4
Computational theory: 4
Security Procedures (Matrix): 3 (+2)
Pornography (Simsense): 1 (+2)
SOTA Science: 2
Mathematics: 2
Explosives: 1
Magic Background: 1
Data Havens: 3
Ethics (Science): 1 (+2)
Esoteric Trivia: 1
Czech culture: 1
Underground electronics dealers: 2
Surveillance Practices (Electronic): 1 (+2)
Conspiracy Theories (General Paranoia): 1 (+2)
Intelligence Agencies (North American): 1 (+2)
Matrix Fraud: 1

Knowledge skills have to be my favourite part of character creation.